There are good documentaries and there are great documentaries, and this week’s subject of Sports on Screen definitely fits into the latter… although perhaps for all the wrong reasons.

Sunderland Til I Die is a Netflix football documentary like on other. Last week, we wrote about the popular Amazon series Tottenham Hotspur: All or Nothing. While Tottenham hotspur: All or Nothing is also excellent, it focuses on the positives, omits serious blips like Hugo Lloris’ drinking or Son Heung-Min’s tackle which resulted in a horrendous tackle on Everton’s Andre Gomes. Throughout that documentary, Daniel Levy and Jose Mourinho also come off like your best friends, which they’re really not. That’s because the club ultimately had approval over the content and what made it to screen.  

Sunderland A.F.C. cannot have had even the merest smidgeon of control over this documentary’s content making it to Netflix.  

Whoever signed off on Sunderland Til I Die from the club may have missed a trick, but it makes for an unbelievably ‘warts ‘n’ all’ docuseries look at the former English Premier League club who, after being relegated to The Championship, are determined to make it back to the big time.